Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73not60

§451b Waters Included Within Subchapter

Title 33 › Chapter 9— PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY › Subchapter III— NEW YORK HARBOR, HARBOR OF HAMPTON ROADS, AND HARBOR OF BALTIMORE › § 451b

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Names which waters count as three harbors. New York: tidal New York Harbor, nearby feeder waters, and Long Island Sound. Hampton Roads: tidal waters around Norfolk/Portsmouth/Newport News/Hampton Roads, Chesapeake Bay inside Virginia, and U.S. Atlantic waters within or east of Virginia. Baltimore: tidal Baltimore Harbor, nearby feeder waters, and Chesapeake Bay inside Maryland.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §451b

Navigation and Navigable Waters — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

For the purposes of this subchapter—

(1)The term “harbor of New York” means the tidal waters of the harbor of New York, its adjacent and tributary waters, and those of Long Island Sound.

(2)The term “harbor of Hampton Roads” means the tidal waters of the harbors of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton Roads, and their adjacent and tributary waters, so much of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries as lies within the State of Virginia, and so much of the Atlantic Ocean and its tributaries as lies within the jurisdiction of the United States within or to the east of the State of Virginia.

(3)The term “harbor of Baltimore” means the tidal waters of the harbor of Baltimore and its adjacent and tributary waters, and so much of Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries as lies within the State of Maryland.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective on sixtieth day after Aug. 28, 1958, see section 2 of Pub. L. 85–802, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1958 Amendment note under section 441 of this title.

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 451b

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60